Literature has inspired director Luiz Fernando Carvalho since the beginning of his career. In his works for cinema and television, literary writing is a fundamental starting point, which has materialized in projects based on the works of Raduan Nassar (“Lavoura Arcaica”), Machado de Assis (“Capitu”), Graciliano Ramos (“Alexandre and Other Heroes”), Eça de Queiroz (“Os Maias”) and Milton Hatoum (“Dois Irmãos”), among others.
In common, in addition to the literary origin, the visual and language experimentation, but none as radical as the film “The Passion According to G.H.”, which is now in theaters. Created from the book by Clarice Lispector, the feature began to be drafted in 2001 and became a de facto project when the writer’s son, Paulo Gurgel, asked Luiz Fernando to take it to the cinema.